DSpace as a Preservation Platform
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DSpace as a
Preservation Platform
Mark Jordan, SFU Library
Vancouver Digital Archives Group
2005-09-15
Overview
Institutional Repositories
SFU’s IR
DSpace as a preservation platform
Demonstration
What are Institutional
Repositories?
Provide ongoing access to an institution’s
scholarly output
Contrasted with learning object repositories
Articles, working papers, books, theses, data
sets, computer programs…
http://www.merlot.org/
Contrasted with disciplinary archives
http://arXiv.org
Attributes of IRs
Institution-based
Open access
Managed by libraries and
communities within institution
Interoperable, standards-based
Variety of content
Brief history of IRs
Eprints archives
Example:arXiv (high energy physics
archive)
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition)
position paper
DSpace
Growth of Institutional
Repositories
Source:
Institutional
Archives
Registry
The CARL project
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
7 mainstreamed IRs
University of Calgary
Université Laval
Université de Montreal
Simon Fraser University
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
University of Winnipeg
7 pilot projects
8 more in the planning phase
The CARL project: content
Journal articles
Learning objects
Theses and dissertations
Journal issues
Photographs
Images
Conference papers
Music scores
Data sets
SFU’s repository
Community
Documents
Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing
4
Simon Fraser University Library
16
DiGRA 2005
101
Simon Fraser University Linguistics
Graduate Student Association
7
Simon Fraser University Theses
230
SSHRC-Funded Projects
1
SFU: activities
Every semester we will be adding
more than 120 theses or graduate
projects
Library staff papers and Library events
Conferences at SFU
SFU’s 40th Anniversary
SFU: use (April 2005)
Downloads: average of almost 80
documents/day
Searches: average of just under 3.5
searches per day
Browsing: not used very much
How Do IRs preserve
scholarship?
They don’t, without support from the
institution
They do make scholarship more
accessible
IR service must be accompanied by
sensible preservation strategies
DSpace as a preservation
platform
Was designed to be OAIS compliant
Includes preservation tools
Is being used as a testbed for
preservation strategies
DSpace and OAIS
DSpace is intended to comply with
OAIS Reference Model
Provides SIP, AIP, and DIP functions
but these are still evolving
Moving to use METS as AIP container
Source: Robert Tansley et al, “DSpace as an Open Archival Information System: Current
Status and Future Directions”, European Digital Library Conference 2003,
http://www.ecdl2003.org/presentations/papers/session11b/Tansley/dspace-ecdl2003.ppt
DSpace’s OAIS SIPs
INGEST PROCESS
External SIP
Batch Item
Importer
DSpace SIP
Item Installer
Web Submit
UI
Workflow
Tansley et al, slide 25
Archived Item
(AIP)
DSpace’s tools
“Supported formats”
Checksum generator
METS output
Media filters
Research / implementation
Robert Tansley
Robert Fox
Developing a METS application profile
as part of DSpace SIPs
Jim Downing
“DSpace Digitial Preservation
Automation”
Demonstration
From user’s point of view
From submitter’s point of view